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Is Augmented Reality the Ultimate Museum App: Some Strategic Considerations
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Mobile Apps for Museums, available from the AAM Press. In the past year, the innovative forms of augmented reality (AR) appearing on … -
Museums Shaping Cities
One crucial way museums can change the world is to help people in their communities improve their own environments. I want to spotlight a few notable examples that have crossed my radar recently. The National Building Museum’s Intelligent … -
More Crowdsourced Scholarship: Citizen History
Today’s guest post is by Elissa Frankle, an education consultant at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. When not coordinating and raving about the Children of the Lodz Ghetto Citizen History project, she trains law enforcement … -
Can Museums Help Make Cities More Intelligent?
“Smart cities” is a big topic now. How big? Smart Planet recently reported that investment in smart city infrastructure will hit $108 billion by 2020. Yah, that’s big. What makes a city “smart?” Smart Planet defines it as “the … -
Helix: Scaffolding #21211
Today’s guest post comes to you from Tracy Hicks. Here he shares with you some of his thoughts over the evolution of his piece that will be on display in Houston at the AAM Annual Meeting. Be sure to also visit Hicks’ website … -
Preview of Houston: Exploring the Future of Natural History Museums
At the AAM meeting in Houston this May, artist Tracy Hicks will create an installation on the future of natural history museums and the influence of natural history museums on the future of the earth. One of the things I love about Tracy’s … -
Museums & Community: Steampunk Love
This weekend, the city of Waltham, Mass. will host International Steampunk City. Presented by the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, this “con” (convention) mashes together industrial history, Victorian culture and fashion, … -
Campaign for the Abolition of Nouns
“I seem to be a verb”—Buckminster FullerMy beef with nouns:a) they are, at best, approximations—attempts to create clear boundaries for identities that are inherently fuzzy b) As they mutate over time, they accumulate archaic baggage, … -
What’s the Point of a Museum Website?
Ignite Smithsonian. Many of you have probably already heard that on April 11 the auditorium of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian was packed from 10 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. with people talking about museums, technology … -
Museums and Spontaneous Eruptions of Art: Yarnbombing
Over the past two weeks, we’ve had Maria Mortati share with us the foundation of the San Francisco Mobile Museum and Barbara Stauffer discussing the challenges of orchestrating a participatory design experience in an institution. To …
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